Carter G. Woodson Quotes

Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson
American Historian
Born: Dec 19, 1875
Died: Apr 3, 1950
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. Carter G. Woodson
Teacher History Lose Those Record Inspiration Accomplished Which Teaching Who Biography
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. Carter G. Woodson
History World Thought Negligible Danger Worthwhile Factor Becomes Tradition Being Race Stands
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. Carter G. Woodson
You Man Control Thinking Worry About His Actions
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. Carter G. Woodson
Strong Will Become Enough Ghetto Out Must Fed Never Pushes He Him Hand Get Eternally
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. Carter G. Woodson
Change Struggle Black Hopeless Face Worst Student Well Him Sort Another Said His Condition Handicap Curse Teaching
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. Carter G. Woodson
Class Book Inferiority Thought Every Studies He Almost Him
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. Carter G. Woodson
Inferiority Others Evidence Possess Gifts Superiority Moreover Merely Different Which Race Races Certain Each
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. Carter G. Woodson
Opportunity Every Unlimited Given Individual Consumer Takes Most Make Himself Author Tax Order Social Should Social Order Pays Position
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. Carter G. Woodson
Education Good Needs People Others Enslaved Those Out Has-Been Weaker More Because Does However Been Oppressed Than Modern Modern Education So-Called Conformity Worked Much Who Defects
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Carter G. Woodson
Life Education Leadership Religion Matters Assumption Ghetto Possible Must Make Forces Deal Uplift Confined Social Then Fundamental Things
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. Carter G. Woodson
Superior Long Run Long Run Talent Discrimination Against Much
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. Carter G. Woodson
Best People Our Negroes Worthless Colleges Finishing Put Development Majority Who Large
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. Carter G. Woodson
Opportunities Long Negroes Development Like Sounds Been Denied Discrimination Afraid Anything Naturally Who
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. Carter G. Woodson
Down Sphere Negroes Rising Facing Proportion Merchants Supply Alternative Going Production Manufacturers Graves
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do. Carter G. Woodson
Will Nothing Negroes Atmosphere Remain Left Discrimination Forever Them Producing Present
Let us banish fear. Carter G. Woodson
Fear Banish Us Let Us
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. Carter G. Woodson
Overcome Final Segregation Him Accept How Just Teach Show
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands. Carter G. Woodson
Needs Money Pool Earnings Immediately Must Some Economic Supply Supplying Participate Demands Industries Still Begin Social Organize
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. Carter G. Woodson
Welcome Law White Fact Am Afraid Being In Fact Should Businessmen Sued Suit
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. Carter G. Woodson
Man Own White Out Carry Able Develop He Him His Hold Wants Far Should Program

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